In the hall of virtue, the monarch and the minister played right.

Zheng Anmin restrained his smile and his face became serious.

"I don't know anything about the battle array, but I still have some experience in political affairs. In fact, political affairs and personnel are the same, nothing more than people's hearts.

What is the human heart at the moment? Liya!

Now the prince has four military forces: the caravan guard, the village guard, the left guard of the palace and the Tianquan Tusi soldiers.

Most of the caravans were purchased by the prince in Chengdu, Yazhou and Jianzhou, and a few were recruited Han and Tibetan warriors. These people came from a bitter cold background, and they were reduced to a foreign land, with no food and clothing. Although the world is big, there is no place for it. The prince took them in, gave them land, and gave them peace to their families. Clothing, food, disability and care, death and burial, treatment like robes, care for them like parents, they are all grateful to Dade, who dares not to die? The backbone of the military in this world.

The village protection team is mostly from the royal family and has lived together for generations. The prince of the world lightly levied low rents, punished lawlessness, and benefited the people. They are busy farming, no different from the people, they are practicing in their leisure time, and at the end of the year they have a subsidy of silver and grain, so why not do it? In peacetime, the village is guarded and the family is guarded, and in wartime, the army is stacked, or the city is defended, or the field is fought, or the battle damage of the caravan is supplemented. They are numerous and widely distributed, and there is a Wang Zhuang that is a team of Hu Zhuang, which is the cornerstone of the military strength of the world.

Although Tianquan Tusi is called Tusi, it is actually a Han Chinese, which is very different from Dong Bu and other barbarian Tusi. Since the Tianquan Tusi and Gaoyang clans have been in the army since the dedication of the king and the country, they have made outstanding achievements in the army, but the princes of the court think that they are Tusi, and they are extremely discriminatory in their careers. Meng Shizi was committed to fellowship, recommended to the imperial court, and was awarded an official. Merit will be rewarded, punishment will be given, food and salary will be treated equally, and the injured will be treated wholeheartedly. It also set up a field to dredge roads and distribute profits and tariffs. In this way, why don't you be grateful and admire Tianquan Toast? Tianquan Tusi controls the Sichuan-Tibet Avenue, peeps into the important town of Yazhou, the soldiers are skilled in bows and horses, brave and invincible in battle, the soldiers are generals, the Sichuan is the pillar, and the son of the world regards it as the humerus, and the son of the world must not compete with the imperial court! ”

is from the second class of Jinshi, and his IQ is really not low. Zheng Anmin said a few words, and all Zhu Pingjin's scheming was revealed.

"The hearts of the people of the moment, the benefits of the people. What Zheng Changshi said, in every sentence! However, this son is also kind to the left guard! ”

Zhu Pingjin avoided the questions of the caravan guard, the village guard, and the Tianquan Tusi soldiers, and turned the topic back to the left guard.

"Yu Guan, Song Zhenzong, and Song Zhensi brothers are all from the left guard. Whoever follows to Tianquan and is willing to stay with me to protect the caravan will be able to confer officials like the son of this world, such as the sage of Tao Xian. Now that Hanzhou has formed a team to protect the village, he has taken charge on his own. After Liu Quanzhong's rebellion, the children of the Liu family did not get involved because of this, such as Liu Liansheng, Liu Lianpeng and others, and the son of this world recorded his merits and still used them boldly. The rest of the people who have not joined the two teams of Shangzhuang, such as Yu Ruzhen, Yin Jialin, etc., as long as they do their duty, the son of this world is also knighted and treated well. Yu Bing, this son is even more ......"

"Shizi, the difficulty of the left guard lies precisely in this 'kindness and kindness'!" Zheng Anmin unceremoniously interrupted Zhu Pingjian's complaints.

"The left guards have been the only personal soldiers in the Shu Mansion for two or three hundred years, and they don't look down on the Zhuang guards and caravans at all. In their eyes, those are just local soldiers, and they can't be put on the stage! The prince was kind to them, but which generation of kings didn't treat them well? Liu Quanzhong's rebellion failed, and the prince gave each of the left guards a tael of silver, but which generation of ancestors did not reward the same thing? ”

Could it be that under the good treatment, the left guard sergeant's home is full of food and clothing, money and food, and he can't hold a knife or gun when he is full of food and fat? Zhu Pingjin was puzzled. At this time, he suddenly woke up to the fact that he had never personally visited the left guard Zhuangzi.

Without investigation, there is no voice. Now I sit down and talk about it, make judgments and make decisions out of thin air, will there be problems? At this time, he remembered the scene when he went to Dongmen Renshi to buy people on Chinese New Year's Eve last year, and that should be the military field of the left guard. Out of the red light district where there are many restaurants on the street, there are sparse and simple houses with mud walls and grass roofs, cloth curtains and wood doors on the side of the road, how can I feel as poor as the common people?

A warm wind blew through the Jinde Palace, and Song Zhenzong didn't know who to talk to, and the sound reached the hall. Zhu Pingjin thought that He Chengjun was guarding the palace gate today, and thought of the straight figure and frozen blue lips when he saw He Chengjun on the first day.

Zheng Anmin didn't know why Shizi was suddenly silent, and even a little uneasy, but he knew that it must be Shizi who thought of something.

"My guard sergeant, poor as a people, etc.! His handsome embezzled more than half, and he was not poor! Zhu Pingjin said word by word, and his words were chiseled, "Master Zheng can tell me the truth!" ”

"The son of the world knows thousands of miles!" Zheng Anmin left his seat and paused, "If there are young people in the palace, you must not blind the eyes of the prince!" ”

"Lord Zheng, please get up." Zhu Pingjin helped Zheng Anmin up and listened to him tell him the real situation of the left guard.

The guard system of the Ming Dynasty can be attributed to the world military system. According to the system, the guards are divided into two categories, one is the regular army, and the other is the military surplus, commonly known as Yu Ding. According to the ideal design of the Ming Dynasty 300 years ago, a family went out of a regular army to fight, leaving more than two or three Ding Tuntian. The army defends the country and the country, and Yu Ding Tuntian produces grains to supply the army. The characteristics of this world military system are: Soldiers are raised by soldiers, and soldiers and civilians are separated. A soldier will always be a soldier, and the people will not necessarily be the people forever. The court lost the war, or the soldiers ran too much, and the court ordered the battlements to be gathered, and the people became soldiers.

There are shallow people who speculate in vain: This kind of military system of guarding the world must be shot by Zhu Yuanzhang on the head!

They were wrong!

The world military system was summed up and developed by the collective leadership group of the Ming Dynasty in the practice of arduous struggle!

In the founding war of the Ming Dynasty, it was this system that played a great role;

For a long time after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it was this system that also played an important role in the process of reclaiming the frontier and stabilizing the frontier.

Therefore, this system is a truth that has been tested in practice!

Zhu Pingjin's grandfather, the grandfather of Taizu, once used his unpretentious eyes to inspect his various social plans, and summed up an important conclusion for the many advantages of this world military system:

"I raise millions of soldiers, and it doesn't cost the people a grain of rice!"

It is a pity that yesterday's truth is often today's fallacy, and this is the cruel and ruthless dialectic of history. This kind of military system, which once played a great role in the Hongwu year, became a nightmare for the imperial court in the Chongzhen year.

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Although Zheng Anmin is a civil official and has been an official in the palace for a short time, he still has some understanding of the situation of the left guard. By chance, he encountered the case of Fushun Wang's father and son, Liu Quanzhong and Chen En's rebellion. When the property of the anti-thieves was confiscated, Zheng Anmin, as the highest official sent by the palace, participated in the inventory and registration of the property throughout the process. The property of the Fushun royal family is too many to count, and Liu Qianzhong, as a third-grade military attaché, has a mountain of goods.

This made Zheng Anmin, who had experienced impeachment, a heart. His experience in officialdom taught him that the wealth of an official is often inversely proportional to the wealth of the people under his rule. In other words, the richer the officials, the poorer the people! Therefore, he paid special attention to the life of the soldiers, and although he was mentally prepared, what he saw and heard still surprised him.

Zheng Anmin said to Zhu Pingjin that there were more than 20,000 left guards in Chengdu, excluding women, children, the old and weak, and there were about 7,000 registered in Chengdu. This is the highest proportion of Chengdu guards. As the personal soldiers of the Shu Palace, the left guard has hundreds of officers and soldiers in the royal city as honor guards, and Zheng Anmin will see him every day. As far as you can see, these honor guards are all well-armored and well-dressed.

He once naively thought that the Shu Palace, which was born of the virtuous kings, was different from the lawless Xi'an Qin Palace. But when he was really in the military camp of the left guard, he knew what was more than that!

Everywhere his eyes could see, the sergeant had a yellow face and thin muscles, and his clothes were ragged! The officers are endless, and the houses are magnificent!

With the deepening of the inventory, he found that more than 60,000 acres of tuntian land were guarded by the left guard, and more than eighty percent of the military land, either pawned or sold, had already become civilian land; The imperial court's prohibition of buying and selling military land has long been a dead letter. The officers tried their best to occupy the land, and tried every means to increase the amount of silver paid by military households, and if they could not pay it, they would be compensated. After a natural disaster, the military families could not afford to pay for their children, so they had to sell their fields, their wives and children. Everything was sold out, and the military families fled at the risk of cutting off their heads. In addition to this, the officers also made the sergeants like private slaves, or ploughed the fields, or planted mulberry, or guarded the brothel of the Qinglou, or ran errands for the pawnshop of the liquor store. The soldiers dared not speak out, because the slightest negligence would allow the officers to march to kill!

Of the more than 50,000 mu of land that was illegally converted into private land, Liu Qianzhong alone occupied 15,000 mu, and his henchmen also occupied nearly 10,000 mu. The rest was divided among officers at all levels. The fields were rented out, and the tenants included the families of the Weili army, the families of military officers, and some of the nearby households. More than 10,000 acres of remaining military land were actually leased to military households, and all the rent paid each year was embezzled by Liu Quanzhong and his party, except for a very small part of the expenses paid for honor guards and public expenses for guards.

"Those who are in the military are more miserable than the people! The people are still able to marry, the sergeants have suitors, and the people have avoided them! Therefore, there are many unmarried sergeants in their lives! "Zheng Anmin finally used the difficulty of the sergeant's marriage to explain the true situation of the left guard." General Song selected troops, and there were many soldiers who did not follow, but it was a long time to be a hard soldier! ”

Fuck, left and right, for a long time, the essence is still class struggle! Zhu Pingjin came from the fire and roared in a low voice: "Song Zhenzong is also bullying!" ”

He grabbed the brass bell on the table and shook it vigorously.

"Song Zhenzong is in the side hall, right? Tell him to come and report immediately! Zhu Pingjin shouted to the Qin descendants who appeared at the door.

"The son of the world must not! General Song, the number one general of the palace! Don't be angry and mislead the world! Zheng Anmin was so frightened that he fell to the ground in a hurry and hugged Zhu Pingjin's thigh.

"Lord Zheng, please get up! This son knows the priorities! Zhu Pingjin was full of confidence, "If Song Zhenzong dares to bully the king, this son will say a word, and he will feed the pigs tomorrow!" ”